#mozillas reasoning for not allowing data links to be opened as links is that someone might confuse data uri for real domain

is this confusing you?.

you certainly must think this is link to google.com?

data:text/html;https://google.com;base64,PHNjcmlwdD5sb2NhdGlvbi5ocmVmPSJodHRwczovL2R1Y2tkdWNrZ28uY29tIjwvc2NyaXB0Pg==